{"id":469153,"date":"2026-03-11T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469153\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:53:10","slug":"weymouth-turns-red-for-greg-james-comic-relief-tandem-bike-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469153\/","title":{"rendered":"Weymouth turns red for Greg James&#8217; Comic Relief tandem bike challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayor of Weymouth Caroline Nickinson said she would be at the start to see James off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Good luck Greg, we will give you a big send off as you set off from Weymouth to complete your 1,000km journey to Edinburgh,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Jon Andrews, from Dorset Council, added: &#8220;I know our community will be out in force to cheer him on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re proud to play a small part in supporting Comic Relief and the incredible difference it makes to the lives of the most vulnerable people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The breakfast show presenter will spend eight days in the saddle riding mostly solo with special guests and other Radio 1 presenters taking on the second seat during the journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His route for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0ljpjxyp21o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio 1&#8217;s Longest Ride<\/a> will see him pedal over eight days through Wales, the Midlands and the north of England, to the finish on 20 March &#8211; Red Nose Day &#8211; in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor of Weymouth Caroline Nickinson said she would be at the start to see James off. &#8220;Good luck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}